Leo Ornstein - Cello Sonata No. 2

[@culveyhouse]

I don't think there's any cello sonata that has made me feel more lonely. I know at least 53,000 of you listened to this, but... I just hope that every human gets to hear this, someday before the end of days.

[@LeonardoLLeuci]

Ornstein is by far my favorite composer, and it’s crazy because even in a music school I mention him to professors and they look at me and have no idea who he was.

[@SeigneurReefShark]

Serious teachers should know him

[@dfghj241]

oh god, how could i have lived without knowing about this?

[@culveyhouse]

Same here!

[@arturszczepkowski4436]

Same

[@null8295]

cello is one of the most beautiful instruments

[@PieInTheSky9]

Leo Ornstein has his own distinct voice, something that very few composers have achieved. His Cello sonatas are both particularly masterful and gorgeous works of romanticism.

[@johnlindstrom9994]

I hear strong references to Schelomo by Bloch, but slightly sweeter, not quite so despairing. For Bloch: was he Swiss? Jewish? American? For Ornstein: was he Russian?Jewish? American?

[@johnlindstrom9994]

@Lunar Orbit It's Jewish!

[@ZeroKelvin440]

I always feel like Ornstein had a certain darkness of the soul. At least he always kept a sunny disposition.

[@bionicearth]

+Zero Kelvin I see what you did there

[@AeraSteele98]

Ahahhahahaha You. I like you.

[@SuperBloodborneMaker2]

Your sentiment is absolutely incandescent Kelvin

[@swaggypanda1808]

@@SuperBloodborneMaker2 as grossly incandescent as the sun. a magnificent father.

[@rubber7506]

@@swaggypanda1808 the sun is such a wondrous body!

[@HeroesOfThyme]

I never noticed how his music flows like the graceful movements of a lion. His music gives you feelings of sadness and beauty like a spear going through your soul..... It's electrifying. Ornstein you are truly a magnificent drago.... Composer!

[@SpiritHourglass]

Gotta get that Leo Ring !

[@HeIsLiterallyMe]

A fitting comparison especially considering his name is Leo which is derived from the Latin for lion.

[@rainbenkennaz6173]

@@HeIsLiterallyMe his name waas anglicized, his birth name was lev, a hebrew name meaning heart

[@rokano]

The composer was born in the 1800s and was still alive when I was born, that's insane.

[@asloii_1749]

Beauty meets complexity in the most organic and romantic way. I love this piece so much

[@gbritaney]

Goodness a dark and beautiful lyrical theme for the cello interspersed with an extended solo piano passage. He had a wonderful gift of composing for the cello.

[@dunterriker3301]

Finally found a 20th century sonata whose cello part isn’t just harmonic support. It’s nice to hear the cello add something to the music

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

Barber, Bridge, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Debussy, Ireland, Moeran, etc etc. All of these have wonderful cello parts, full of melody and invention.

[@lethaljellybean]

I'm completely enthralled by this piece!

[@alejandrom.4680]

What wonderful, complex and breath taking musical world he lived in. This is more than a master piece, can't describe It with words.

[@alejandrom.4680]

The fact that I have been always ended up hearing Ornstein is amusing. This music is pure gold.

[@mikestewart6517]

Mood transformingly well crafted. Why didn't they tell me about this man in school?!

[@jgrab1]

There's a lot of great people you don't learn about in school, in all areas. After you graduate from formal "learning" is when you really start to get an education.

[@alejandrom.4680]

John Grabowski I don’t even “started” school, and I love this man, among other contemporaries; Messiaen, Rautavaara, Xenakis, Schoenberg, but mostly Ornstein. I find my own voice pretty similar in a harmonic aspect, his language is so unique and so beautiful, with a controlled dissonance and a really complex tonal changing..., more I know about music, more I enjoy it...

[@zachguo6372]

What school did u go to? Lol

[@Stitch87654]

How could I not have heard of this till now... Thank you very much for uploading this! :-)

[@-mederick-5252]

The best cello sonata I have ever heard!

[@eottoe2001]

Listen to this once yesterday and once today, Oh my! I only came across this yesterday.

[@mistou26]

Beautiful music. THank you for sharing.

[@olla-vogala4090]

My pleasure Mr. Snail!

[@Fred31415927]

Ah - Benni Baerenstark ...!

[@suelinbuhidar6331]

Wow! I had never heard of this composer. I recently read that he was one of George Gershwin's favorite composers. Thanks for sharing this gorgeous music!

[@kevinchen8325]

how have i never heard of this?!?!?!?!?!?!? its so good

[@Jeannekm126]

Underrated piece.

[@javiertw89]

Beautiful music! Thanks for sharing.

[@aaronogden9900]

A masterclass in chord progressions. Beautiful work.

[@theriskengineer4307]

wonderful... thank you for this music...

[@katnipeverdeen8327]

so beautiful. I don't want to cry

[@newtonle6964]

What a mindblowingly beautiful piece! Great interpretation too. Thank you for the upload :)

[@martintinchex5917]

This is amazing, I never heard about this composer, great music! thanks

[@ThoseSpacesInBetweenDEPalm]

Thank You Olla!

[@glennroblesspiritualart5089]

I think God for you and your channel! Be very creative and profound music that you bring is nourishment for the soul.

[@norwalltino]

Amazing, beautiful masterwork!

[@heichitwong1377]

Thank you for uploading this piece :)

[@Medtnaculuss]

My favourite! Thanks for uploading this!

[@olla-vogala4090]

+Medtnaculus You're welcome :)

[@ryansakamoto6001]

A very beautiful piece of work 👍

[@johnlindstrom9994]

Why are some composers known, and others aren't? Bloch is relatively known. Ornstein isn't. Why? after much listening, I feel that Bloch is more "over the top." That is, he cries with more anguish, sighs more sweetly, exerts his SOUL more forcefully, as in Schelomo. In fact, Bloch is somewhat grating, harping on moral issues you may wish to avoid. Ornstein is just a bit more subdued. However, his music is truly beautiful and needs to be heard more. These guys will make a big comeback, because Mankind will ultimately discover that technology is not THE answer. Rather, the human spirit and moral concerns will rise again to prominence. Thanks, Olla-vogala, for all the music and commentary you put out.

[@ThoseSpacesInBetweenDEPalm]

I was lucky enough to take the likes from 999 to 1K! :) Love, Laughter, Love

[@gururkeremsakar9812]

A Masterpiece!!

[@zeynepy]

nicely organized and composed

[@norwalltino]

Yeah, I'm applauding, this is great music, lovely :-)

[@CookieMonsterVids12]

Cello Sonata? More like Piano Etude! Wonderful piece though - flows beautifully.

[@heinzguderian9980]

Just like most sonatas written for piano + one other instrument. But this sonata does have an even greater difference in difficulty than the average sonata.

[@dunterriker3301]

Heinz Guderian I’m not doubting the difficulty of the piano part, it looks insane, but the cello part isn’t exactly easy either.

[@gerardbegni2806]

@@heinzguderian9980 look at Rachmaninov's !!!!!!!

[@gerardbegni2806]

@@dunterriker3301 In do not think that we can characterize duo sonatas by the difficulty of the part of such or such partner. Here (as in Rachmanainov's as I quote below) the pino part is extremely difficult, but the fact is that the expression is most of the time led by the cello in a rather sed mood, I and I think that this is by far the most important. You know, take any piano score; any first year student in a correct music Conservatory is able to make it four times more difficult without any added musical value.

[@MarcelloSevero]

I like the modulation at 7:56 from G# minor to Ab minor

[@karlpoppins]

nice one

[@twinicebear775]

lol

[@phillipoos]

Fabulous performance of a fiendishly difficult piece....

[@grahamexeter3399]

Glorious piece! It seems to inhabit a similar world to Bax's Elegiac Trio.

[@redstonealex8575]

The first 1 minute is godly

[@kituxplo5]

Todos caemos en preguntar ¿por qué hay tan buenos compositores que no interpretan en los conciertos? Y yo les digo: queridos intérpretes, esa es nuestra misión: Salvar el discurso de aquellos compositores no interpretados.

[@forg4308]

rip the accompanist who's asked to play this by any cellist.

[@eclipsequartet897]

Bravo, fantastic performance!

[@Nanananaheyhey1]

He lived over 100 years

[@Slow1337ex]

came here to check out the namesake of Ornstein from Dark Souls. This is really good.

[@CarpeVolante]

0:44 - 0:47 are very much like Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune. That's a chromatic descent, right ?

[@igniss777]

1:42 I’m dead.

[@gavincannon8385]

Me too. What amazing writing!

[@igniss777]

Yesss, It's one of the prettiest lines of music I've ever heard!

[@ziegunerweiser]

Wonder if he was still composing at age 109...

[@ziegunerweiser]

Some of the melodic patterns I do hear exotic flavors, not necessarily Hebrew perhaps Hungarian gypsy kind of sounds,maybe I'm not sure what the difference is? Makes me curious about his past... The arpeggios on the piano are all over the place, very fluid.

[@olla-vogala4090]

+scottbos68 From wiki: "Ornstein completed his eighth and final piano sonata in September 1990 at the age of ninety-six, making him the oldest published composer in history (a mark since passed by Elliott Carter)."

[@hadenplouffe3976]

+scottbos68 Ornstein continued to write until the age of 101, the eighth sonata was his last major works, but there are little things here and there until 101. I have no doubt that he played as long as he could though. If you're curious about getting some more details I would very highly recommend paying a visit to Severo Ornstein's youtube channel and contacting him to inquire about some of that.

[@hadenplouffe3976]

+olla-vogala Also, thank you so much for uploading this! Ornstein's works for cello and piano are just truly truly astonishing and this might well be the best of them (then again, the cello preludes... impossible to decide!).

[@fuwatime3847]

Praise the sun \0/

[@EliteKnightHelm]

Shame that there are not so many people in souls community that know about Leo Ornstein

[@loge10]

Do I hear the cellist playing a different note than what is in the score on measure 3 and the same when the phrase is repeated in measure 194? The cellist descends one step on the second part of the triplet where the score has it descending down a 4th. Both would be beautiful but I wonder which is correct - the cellist or the score?

[@twinicebear775]

There are often small nuances like these throughout scores (even the most famous pieces are still unknown). Some copies may say one thing, while others say another. For example, the Haydn Cello Concerto No 2 has many different versions and edits done by Haydn himself.

[@PianoScoreVids]

The open ending reminds me of ondine ending

[@zacharycoronado6749]

I really want to play this on bassoon

[@CallofCoonCoon]

Interesting to play on The Viola. I am Violist. I will try to arrange it.

[@peabrane8067]

I swear cello sonatas always have the most insane piano accompaniment

[@verslaflamme666]

I wonder if Carl Vine heard this piece before composing his first sonata lol

[@vvvladut]

0:05

[@intervalkid]

Incredibly nice piece. I must ask though, why the "modulation", or rather enharmonic notational change, from B to Cb and back to B? It seems pointless redundancy.

[@isaacanwarwatts8844]

Where

[@johnlindstrom9994]

Somewhat reminiscent of Bloch, though 13 years younger. How did Ornstein survive WW2? He came to the USA in 1909!

[@gavincannon8385]

Fuck! This is next level shit. 1:41 = pure goosebumps!!!!

[@evanottervanger5394]

That poor pianist😭

[@RodolfoAlcazarPortillo]

I don't know how I got here, but nice to meet you, I push buttons for living. Sorry, I need to speak with the cat about his behaviour.

[@razgrizace8720]

Dark Souls brought me here

[@LoCoZappers]

why are the composers with the most unique styles near or from Russia...actually considering what they had to go through.......

[@hannesheinz720]

Very complicate and awkward to perform for both, piano and cello!

[@alejandrom.4680]

But beautiful as fuck, you have to agree with that haha.